Editorial
Hello and welcome to Issue 3 of Mechanical Memories Magazine. It's probably a little
later than you'd expected, and to honest, it's later than I'd planned too! Although I've
never actually specified a publishing date, you should normally expect the mag. during
the first week of the month. My computer problems last month are the root cause; it took
three weeks to fix. Then, as soon as I got the computer back, half term was upon us, so it
was off to Brighton every day for the next week. Anyway, it got finished in the end and it
helps me to work toward 'closing the gap' between the July and September issues. I've
printed a big notice later on in the mag. but I'll just remind you now that there will not be
a magazine in August, so the July issue will out during the third week of the month and
then issue 5 will be (hopefully) the first week in September.
It was good to see many of you at the Salisbury auction, and I even signed-up a few
more subscribers. I also met a few subscribers that I knew only by name, so it was good
to be able to put 'faces to names'! Apart from the weather, it was a good day out, and
I've heard Southern Counties were pleased with the event and will be repeating it next
year. For those of you who couldn't be there, I've printed a brief report on the next page,
and a full list of prices is posted on the pennymachines website.
There's been a bit of a change of plan with some of the content I had planned for
this issue. 'The Mystery New York Machine' (see page 7) has sort of taken over! What
started out as a nice little snippet, turned into a major article. As a result of this, there is
no room for 'How I started my collection' or 'Readers Wives'. Hopefully they'll be in-
cluded next time. Please, please keep sending in items for the mag. Although from the
outset, I've known I would be doing most of the writing, it would be good to have some
'help' from time to time!
And finally, I thought I should acknowledge some of the appalling spelling mistakes
in the first two issues, before someone else does! Nobody yet has commented, but some
ofthe spelling has been rubbish! In issue one I wrote " .... of coarse" and in Feedback, in
issue two, I wrote " ... that's sought of what the magazine's all about". WHAT!!! How did
I do that? Of course, the spell checker was useless because sought isn't incorrectly spelt,
it's just the wrong sort. But the final straw came when Les Saunders 'phoned and said
"thanks for printing the Ahrens ad. I haven't had much response, you got my 'phone
number wrong".
I give up!
Until next tyme, awl the best
Jerry
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